I am sure it is more like some of these snakes never even existed. People like to talk crap. I am sure some did exist but unfortunately cool stuff like that seems to always fall into the wrong hands.

As far as parasites go, in my opinion from my personal experience, "treatment" is not needed and the deworming drugs can be worse for the snakes than the parasites themselves. I have had numerous wild caught gaboon vipers straight from Africa that were loaded with mouth flukes and other intestinal nematodes. I have NEVER treated a single one.

Reptiles have ways of reducing and even eliminating parasite loads. All we have to do is offer the conditions to allow them to do so.

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Hide Replies ]